Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Verhoeven and Eszterhas may have needed the R rating after all. When they made Basic Instinct--a sexy R movie--they deployed atmosphere and innuendo to complement Sharon Stone's swank star turn. Here, with an NC-17 rating, the lads go slack; they let pubic hair and menstruation jokes do all the work. Since their leading lady can't act or dance or dazzle the camera, they've got problems they apparently didn't want to solve...
Harvard is better equipped to deal with government cuts than almost all other universities. We are fortunate that enough resources can be gathered to pick up this Republican-induced slack. But many other schools with smaller endowments will have to turn students away. Some that have been considering the abandonment of their need-blind admissions policies--even in the Ivy League--might not be able to resist any longer...
...media coverage and where politics has become a national spectator sport. The American people have been relieved of the burden of the cold war, where you kind of had to trust your government to keep the evil empire at bay and you wanted to cut your government a little slack. Attention is now turned inward. They are not entirely happy with what they see. Too often they see partisan bickering and fighting that goes beyond the reasonable levels of democratic discourse. Is there really that much difference between what the Clinton Administration wants to do with Medicare and what...
...dire as they might sound, since senior co-captain Todd Meringoff is returning from an injury that kept him out of the majority of last season. Meringoff, who won the Rolex Championships in the fall of 1992 and 1993, should certainly pick up a lot of the slack, as will others...
...long-gone mother is not dead but teaching school in Oregon. A reunion follows, not a word of which is believable, including the mother's rueful assertions that she deserted Julia's father for a lover, and later watched Julia's college graduation from a back row. This slack stuff is soap opera, and even a writer as gifted as Hegi can't dress it up as anything else...